Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature

LEAH READE ROSENBERG is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA, where she teaches Caribbean, Postcolonial, and Atlantic studies.

• The Power of Exile Under the Hog Plum Tree: Literary Claims for Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Trinidad The Accidental Modernist: Thomas MacDermot and Jamaican Literature Herbert's Career: H.G. de Lisser and the Business of National Literature The New Primitivism: Gender and Nation in McKay's Internationalism The Realpolitik of Yard Fiction: Trinidad's Beacon Group The Pitfalls of Feminist Nationalism and the Career of Una Marso Fishy Waters: Jean Rhys and West Indian Writing before 1940

"Ground-breaking because of its subject matter, Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature is also remarkable because it opens into other original, if underexploited, vistas." - New West Indian Guide"This is important literary history and criticism, bringing more fully to light work begun on 19th century Trinidadian and Jamaican literature by Caribbean critics such as Rhonda Cobham,Selwyn Cudjoe and Evelyn O'Callaghan. I am confident that this text will become a 'must read' for anyone interested in the historical, ideological, and aesthetic origins of the literature of the English-speaking Caribbean." - Glyne Griffith, University at Albany, State University of New York.